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  <title><![CDATA[Snow White]]></title>
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  <default_description>An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fairy tale   provides an incisive and biting commentary on the absurdities and   complexities of modern life. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1967</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Donald Barthelme]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 30 01:21:37 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 01:29:49 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Barthelme work, but a good read nonetheless.  If you've only read his short stories so far and are considering this as your leap into Barthelme noveldom, please reconsider and start with <em>The Dead Father</em> - that, in my opinion, was a much more solid piece of work.  If you've already fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41264064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48767267">
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    <name><![CDATA[Judy]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 09 21:08:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 09 21:15:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite novella. When I first read this book, in my early 20s, I identified with Snow White, because I felt like the men I was meeting were metaphorically dwarves, lacking in dimension.  I adored Donald Barthelme's ironic, collage-like writing style, which was very much like my own.  In ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48767267">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51142656">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lee]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 01 09:02:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 30 04:23:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My copy is a Bantam paperback from 1971 featuring on its cover Snow White's naked arse and seven arms reaching out from behind a shower curtain. The blurb on the back mentions &quot;the crisis in literature.&quot; This read in a lot of ways like a period piece in form and content. Deconstruction of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51142656">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1446158">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mitch]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri May 25 14:28:28 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 25 18:17:04 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An absurdist take on a classic story.  Probably the best way to learn how to read Barthelme.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1446158]]></url>
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    <review id="12107801">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 09 17:59:01 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 09 18:16:34 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I give this book ZERO stars.  Of all of the books I have ever read, I liked this the least.  I have always disliked post-modernism for its deconstructive and irreverent approach to literature but Barthelme really pushed me to the limits of my tolerance for the movement.  To meaningfully position thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12107801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62473744">
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    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Santa Barbara, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 07 09:02:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 10 16:34:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine my disappointment when I found out that other copies of this book had a picture Snow White's arse and my copy was sadly arse-less.  After getting over my G-rated cover and getting past my anti-metafiction stigma Snow Whites little tale made me giggle with delight. <br/> <br/>&quot;Some thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62473744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63139742">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matthew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 12 07:21:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 12 07:25:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun, if somewhat dated, novel by one of the more popular experimental fiction authors of the 60's and 70's. Barthelme uses the tale of Snow White----both the Disney version and the original fairy tale----as a prop for his textual and philosophical experiments. Although I like his short fiction bet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63139742">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39357103">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dutch]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Dec 08 04:32:33 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A delightful post-modernist/deconstructivist take on the classic story. Equal parts comedy and tragedy. Barthelme has a gift for playing with words that keep this book moving and keep the mood light. Like DeLillo on laughing gas. ]]></body>
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    <review id="52254975">
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    <location><![CDATA[Arlington, VA]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[my first experience with barthelme, i'm embarrassed to say. david foster wallace was greatly influenced by him. very experimental, but completely lucid, at the same time. and, did i mention, hilarious?]]></body>
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    <review id="1384928">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bradford]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 23 07:57:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 18 10:21:57 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Donald Barthelme is pretty consistently structurally playful and silly, but also consistently trying to write humanity, and does so surprisingly well without dropping the smile.<br/><br/>I prefer The Dead Father to this one -- while both share his sexual frankness, absurdity, fracture and (sometim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1384928">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51486001">
    <user id="48206">
    <name><![CDATA[kasia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 04 10:46:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 04 10:47:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the writing style, but the plot was too opaque for me. Some clever observations and entertaining moments, yes, but ultimately a bit too abstract to really move me.]]></body>
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    <review id="43412191">
    <user id="1775862">
    <name><![CDATA[Wes]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rhome, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 19:18:31 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[General Barthleme craziness with a sexualized fairy tale princess. If nothing else, Barthleme's gift was finding the absurd genius in the everyday.]]></body>
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    <review id="49024993">
    <user id="6485">
    <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 12 07:59:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 12 08:00:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As seen in <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/02/23/090223crat_atlarge_menand"><em>The New Yorker</em></a>.]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Tim]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that Snow White is a bit of a slut. An entertaining read, but a bit hard to follow.]]></body>
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    <review id="16254323">
    <user id="77417">
    <name><![CDATA[bill]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Sun Feb 24 12:54:40 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of the cleverest &amp; funniest books i've ever read. a post-modern retelling of Snow White. all the characters except snow white have new names: the prince (or maybe anti-prince) is Paul, the wicked queen is Jane, the dwarves all have names. a feast for anyone who loves the english language.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16254323">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71798429">
    <user id="2755242">
    <name><![CDATA[Othesun23]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Milford, CT]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[My personal favorite.]]></body>
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    <review id="74465891">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kristen]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Freaky.]]></body>
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    <review id="32755090">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andrew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can best describe Barthelme's style as &quot;slideshow fiction.&quot;  Narrative *click* character sketch *click* moment of silence *click* and so forth.  Repeated images, half-sketched drawings, empty gazes, personal histories, barely strung together.  Existentialist attitude merges with a very c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32755090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45986069">
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome little book. An Andy Warhol/porno version of the Snow White faerytale. Mostly written in dramatic monologues. One of the best experimental novels ever.]]></body>
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